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* A real-time dashboard for buildings, neighbourhoods, and the city, focused on conveying the energy flow in and out of spaces, centred around the behaviour of individuals and groups within buildings.

* A form of 'BIM 2.0' that gives users of buildings both the real-time and longitudinal information they need to change their behaviour and thus use buildings, and energy, more effectively. An ongoing post-occupancy evaluation for the building, the neighbourhood and the city.

* A software service layer for connecting things together within and across buildings.

* As information increasingly becomes thought of a material within building, it makes sense to consider it holistically as part of the built fabric, as glass, steel, ETFE etc.

large blog article if you follow the link. this is merely a summary here.

Extension of a small semi-detached family home on a large plot in Blackheath. The modular timber extension wraps around the side of the semi-detached house; it peeps through the adjacent trees of the rear garden and provides access onto the side terrace.

The extension provides a fourth bedroom and second bathroom on the first floor. The ground floor has been dramatically reorganised providing a new playroom and a library for the client’s extensive collection of books and fine art prints. The kitchen and dining area is re-housed in the extension and benefits from unobstructed views of the garden. The interiors are fitted with bespoke furniture and storage space designed by Turner Castle.http://www.turnercastle.co.uk/projects/slathouse/

i am surprised that permission was granted for something like this. pretty cool, even though it's not in keeping with the original building etc.

Hiding a needle in a haystack is easy enough.But Robert Fidler kept something much bigger concealed among the piles of straw down on his farm... a castle.

Over the course of two years, he managed to secretly – and unlawfully – build the imposing mock Tudor structure in one of his fields, shielded behind a 40ft stack of hay bales covered by a huge tarpaulins.

That's awesome! It will be sad if they make them tear it down. Unless it's unsafely built, their neighbors put up with hay bails for 4 years. This has to be much nicer to look at. I think if the neighbors object, it's out of spite and jealousy.

Within the living room the ceiling wraps down to an internal water tank. The tank cools the ambient air temperature of the living room during summer, supplies rain water, and structurally carries the roof load. Excess water drains to an external tank, and is used for flushing toilets, irrigating the garden, washing wetsuits and occasionally for drinking. During winter the tank is drained and wrapped in an insulating jacket.

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hehe, bull and i were just talking about a similar thing, ve. we came to the conclusion that it's either people making large sacrifices to live "like that", or (and this is quite likely) the houses have very recently been completed before the photo shoot - i bet they soon fill up with clutter

ok, maybe not, but they are definitely not family homes (unless you are pretty strict hehe).

yes, we were. many of these box designs leave me cold. yes, i understand they are 'photo-ready', but it's the shapes of the spaces and the colors [or non-colors heh] used that really give me that dead impression.

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